Alibaba Qwen (Tongyi Qianwen)

AlibabaAI & MLFree tier available

Alibaba's flagship open-source foundation model family covering Qwen (text), Qwen-VL (vision-language), Qwen-Audio, and Qwen-Coder — accessible via the DashScope API with chat, completion, embeddings, and function-calling endpoints

FluffyStack tools
Add to Service BuilderAdd to CompareCompare with equivalentsExplore Alibaba in TreemapExplore ai-ml in Honeycomb
DocumentationPricing

Attributes

Open Weights
Yes

Sub-services (4)

Qwen Text Models

Chat, completion, and instruct-tuned models at multiple sizes (7B-235B)

Qwen-VL (Vision-Language)

Multimodal models for image understanding, OCR, and visual reasoning

Qwen-Audio

Speech and audio understanding for transcription and generation

Qwen-Coder

Code-specialised models for completion, refactoring, and debugging

Compliance & Certifications

This service is attested for the following frameworks. Always verify with the provider before relying on a specific compliance posture.

GDPRSOC 2ISO 27001PCI DSS

Where this runs

22 regions
15 countries
7sovereign
Sovereign regions (7)
  • China (Hangzhou) · HangzhouAlibaba Cloud China
  • China (Beijing) · BeijingAlibaba Cloud China
  • China (Shanghai) · ShanghaiAlibaba Cloud China
  • China (Shenzhen) · ShenzhenAlibaba Cloud China
  • China (Chengdu) · ChengduAlibaba Cloud China
  • China (Zhangjiakou) · ZhangjiakouAlibaba Cloud China
  • China (Hohhot) · HohhotAlibaba Cloud China
Commercial regions (15)

Europe (2)

  • Frankfurt
  • London

North America (2)

  • Silicon Valley
  • Virginia

Asia (9)

  • Hong Kong
  • Mumbai
  • Jakarta
  • Tokyo
  • Kuala Lumpur
  • Manila
  • Singapore
  • Seoul
  • Bangkok

Oceania (1)

  • Sydney

Middle East (1)

  • Dubai

Tags

foundation-modelsgenerative-aillmmultimodalai-ml

Equivalent services on other platforms

Amazon BedrockAWS

Build generative AI applications with foundation models from Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral, Stability AI, and Amazon, accessed via a single API with fine-tuning and agents

Azure OpenAI ServiceAzure

Enterprise access to OpenAI models including GPT-4, GPT-3.5, and DALL-E with Azure security, private networking, regional deployments, and pay-as-you-go or provisioned throughput

Gemini APIGCP

Direct API access to Google's most capable multimodal AI models with text, image, audio, and video understanding, long context windows, and function calling support

Pricing

Pricing model:pay-per-token